Brianna Lombardi, PhD, MSW
Dr. Lombardi holds faculty appointments at UNC as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and as a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work. Dr. Lombardi received her master’s degree in Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh and her PhD in Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Lombardi’s work seeks to understand how health care practices and health systems deploy teams of providers to address the physical health, behavioral health, and social needs of vulnerable individuals through integrated models of care. She is an expert in social worker roles on integrated health teams and uses innovative methods to study the expanding role of social workers in integrated primary care. Dr. Lombardi’s work has evaluated how rapidly changing payment and practice models impact the health workforce and shift roles in team-based models of care. She has been funded through research and workforce training grants through the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center at the University of Michigan.
Positions Held
- Co-Director of the Program on Health Workforce Research & Policy and Deputy Director for Policy at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
- Director of the Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center
- Deputy Director of the Carolina Health Workforce Research Center
- Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill
- Research Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, UNC Chapel Hill
Featured Work
- Understanding Available Data Sources to Estimate the Size and Distribution of Community Health Workers in the United States, published in Medical Care Research and Review
- Aligning Training, Regulation, and Payment Policy to Advance the Behavioral Health Workforce, published in Health Affairs Scholar
- Trends in Workplace Violence for Health Care Occupations and Facilities Over the Last 10 Years, published in Health Affairs Scholar
- Varying Estimates of Social Workers in the United States: Which Data Source to Use?, published in Medical Care Research and Review
- When Interruption Becomes Innovation: How Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care Adapted During COVID-19 published in Family Medicine
- Are DEA-waivered buprenorphine prescribers colocated with behavioral health clinicians? published in the American Journal on Addictions
Contact
Email: brianna_lombardi@med.unc.edu
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